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Edwardsville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Morristown town. It lies in ZIP code area 13646. It lies near Booths Island. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.

Edwardsville within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edwardsville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Edwardsville, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

85 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Edwardsville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning8
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Edwardsville: 15 past producers, 6 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mineral Point DepositLead, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Unnamed Quartz Syenite QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Pope Mills DepositGraphitePast Producer1895, 1945
Pope Mills DepositGraphitePast Producer
East Bigelow DepositLead, ZincPast ProducerReplacement
F.E. Turner DepositLead, ZincPast ProducerReplacement
Unnamed Magnetite Prospect PitIronProspect
Unnamed Magnetite Prospect PitIronProspect
Unnamed Magnetite Prospect PitIronProspect
Unnamed Sandstone QuarryFlagstone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwardsville in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$500,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$5,000A couple of uprooted trees in Edwardsville.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$2,000Numerous large limbs and branches downed by thunderstorm winds in local campground.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Measured wind gust of 59 mph.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pope Mills2.7 miles19
Cedars3.2 miles19
Brier Hill3.7 miles19
Ruby Corner4.8 miles19
Black Lake (historical)5.0 miles19
Morristown Center5.1 miles17
Morristown5.3 miles19
Terrace Park5.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976284. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.